BNP to support any Jamaat programme for release of top leaders

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Main opposition BNP will support and join any programme of movement by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami for the release of the party's arrested top leaders, reports UNB.
BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain said this while talking to reporters after a joint meeting of the party and its front and associate organizations at its Nayapaltan central office Friday noon.
"We'll extend support to their (Jamaat) programme as the party is a victim of the blueprint of the government's conspiracy. Jamaat extended support to our programme and it remains with the anti-government movement," Delwar told the reporters. He further said that BNP would also take programme on its own to this end.
The BNP joint meeting, presided over by the party's secretary general, was held to prepare for making the July 7 countrywide human chain programme a success.
On June 28, from a protest rally at Muktangon, BNP announced the human chain programme demanding release of the leaders and workers of the party and its front and associate organizations who were arrested during the June 27 hartal and withdrawal of the false cases against them.
The BNP secretary general asked the government not to obstruct their July 7 countrywide human chain programme. He cautioned that the consequences of any government obstruction to their human chain programme would not be good as had been proved in the past.
The joint-meeting was attended by senior leaders of BNP and presidents and general secretaries of the front and associate organizations of the party.
On Thursday night, BNP national standing committee, the party's highest policymaking body, sat in an emergency meeting with Khaleda Zia in the chair.
The standing committee meeting discussed the latest political developments, particularly its strategy over the arrest of its ally Jamaat-e-Islam's three top leaders Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid and Delwar Hossain Sayedee. The Jamaat leaders were arrested on Tuesday.